{"id":1841,"date":"2009-11-16T13:28:33","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T17:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2010-05-12T11:36:26","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T15:36:26","slug":"harrier-replacement-moves-to-next-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/11\/16\/harrier-replacement-moves-to-next-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrier replacement moves to next stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/11\/16\/f35b_starts_hover_tests\/\" target=\"_blank\">F-35B<\/a> has been delivered to an American base for testing of its vertical take-off and hover capabilities:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The F-35 &#8220;Lightning II&#8221; B model will, like other versions of the same aircraft, offer supersonic performance and stealth technology &#8211; a combo so far offered in only one aircraft in the world, the famous F-22 Raptor ultrasuperfighter. But the F-35B, unlike its tailhook and normal-runway counterparts, is also equipped with a central lift fan mounted in a shaft through the fuselage and can swivel its jet exhaust downwards too.<\/p>\n<p>This means that an armed and fuelled F-35B should be able to make a very short takeoff run to get airborne and then, having burned fuel and perhaps released weapons, make a vertical landing supported entrirely by engine thrust. This Short Takeoff and Vertical Landing (STOVL) capability has so far been offered in the Western-aligned world only by the famous Harrier, originally developed in Britain and now in service with the RAF, the Royal Navy and the US Marines.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Britain&#8217;s interest is moving toward being purely intellectual . . . the bookies are offering long odds on Britain ever commissioning even one of those two new aircraft carriers, never mind both of them. Back story <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/26\/an-alternative-spending-plan-for-britains-mod\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/royal-navy-carrier-plans-going-going\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/08\/06\/more-threats-to-royal-navys-carrier-plans\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The F-35B has been delivered to an American base for testing of its vertical take-off and hover capabilities: The F-35 &#8220;Lightning II&#8221; B model will, like other versions of the same aircraft, offer supersonic performance and stealth technology &#8211; a combo so far offered in only one aircraft in the world, the famous F-22 Raptor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,15,13],"tags":[123,145,559,117,30],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-military","category-technology","category-usa","tag-aircraft","tag-airforce","tag-f-35","tag-fleetairarm","tag-navy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-tH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3720,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/3720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}